Citizen general : Jacob Dolson Cox and the Civil War era / Eugene D. Schmiel.

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Schmiel, Gene

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780821444801
0821444808

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jacob Dolson Cox and the Civil War eraDDC classification:

355.0092 B 23

LOC classification:

E467.1.C83 S36 2014

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Contents:

Citizen of the Western Reserve: maturing in peace, girding for war -- A citizen-general secures (West) Virginia -- Citizen-general on the national stage: the Maryland Campaign -- Citizen/political general: political wars outside the mainstream -- Division and army commander: the Atlanta Campaign -- Citizen-warrior: the Franklin-Nashville Campaign and war's end -- From citizen-general to state and national political leader -- Citizen-statesman -- Civil War historian -- Renaissance man in the Gilded Age.

Summary: The wrenching events of the Civil War transformed not only the United States but also the men unexpectedly called on to lead their fellow citizens in this first modern example of total war. Jacob Dolson Cox, a former divinity student with no formal military training, was among those who rose to the challenge. In a conflict in which "political generals" often proved less than competent, Cox, the consummate citizen general, emerged as one of the best commanders in the Union army. During his school days at Oberlin College, no one could have predicted that the intellectual, reserved, and book.

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The wrenching events of the Civil War transformed not only the United States but also the men unexpectedly called on to lead their fellow citizens in this first modern example of total war. Jacob Dolson Cox, a former divinity student with no formal military training, was among those who rose to the challenge. In a conflict in which "political generals" often proved less than competent, Cox, the consummate citizen general, emerged as one of the best commanders in the Union army. During his school days at Oberlin College, no one could have predicted that the intellectual, reserved, and book.

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